IN LAST week’s column I was musing on the island’s dislike of the idea of party politics.

IT’S the oldest question in local politics – to party or not to party?

DOWN the decades, Guernsey has remained predominantly against the idea of political parties. Brief flirtations have come and gone, but it remains a topic that exercises political watchers more than islanders at large.

It must be the summer. In the holiday vacuum the argument of party politics has surfaced again prompted by a colourfully worded post on an internet forum by Jersey senator Stuart Syvret.

ONLY if Guernsey adopted cabinet-style government would there be a possible case for political parties, according to Deputy Matt Fallaize.